| Creativity, transitional space and learning are interpreted as inherently unpredictable dynamics that are continuously under construction. Ideas and concepts from the divergent disciplines of psychoanalytic and nonlinear systems theory are examined regarding the nature of creativity and transitional space. The postulation is made that both bodies of knowledge bear striking similarities despite difficulties in interdisciplinary communication. When pragmatically applied to teaching, the formal classroom is understood as a complex adaptive system that contains several interacting layers of organization. Teaching and learning is a continuous creative flow of unconscious wish and desire across levels of complexity all intersecting with goal oriented curriculum in a perpetual state of transition. Where chaos was, creativity, transition, teaching and learning shall be. Nested in parallel with the theoretical overview and analysis is the paper recursively using itself as an example of the creative process it describes. The paper is an example of itself. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
